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This book is a good example of a non-fiction book. It helps students visualize how technology helps medicine.

Children's book describing the Rhine -- its geographical/geological development and the history that enfolded along its banks. Too much emphasis, in my opinion, was given to the environmental and ecological deterioration of the river, the impact of this upon life along the Rhine, and efforts being made to reverse the damage industrialization, as well as centuries of other types of human pollution, has caused. Would have preferred more history!

I like this book for a 4th-5th grade class for a literature circle or group reading. I would use this for a fourth class and have them focus on the point of view. Although it is about Jesse Owens it is not told in first person from his point of view, instead it is told in third person. I would have them discuss how this changes the story and have them compare it to a first person account and find similarities and differences between the two. For a 5th grade class I would use this a civil rights lesson and have the different groups reading books about people who overcame adversity. After all the groups had read their books I would have them discuss in their small groups first about character traits and key details in the story that adds to the theme of overcoming adversity. I would then have each small group pair with another small group and compare and contrast the experiences they read about in their books.

Magnets in the real world

First it talked about the power of magnets. Magnets are all around us. Magnets mainly attract iron,nickel,and cobalt but all of them are metals. They are in everyday life things like refrigerators and even tvs. A compass will use a magnetic needle to tell where you are and where you need to go. Earth itself is a magnet. The largest one in fact. William gilbert was interested in magnets and was studying them. 1580 they used the compass a lot but where very confused about it. They realised that electricity went with magnetism. An english scientist realized that they went together. Atoms are tiny magnets they are very little. The poles were magnets also and on all magnets they have a south and north part of the magnet. We talked about the earth being a magnet and how. We use it for medicine and many other things like a train to.
It wasnt that good of a book. If you like info then you will like it. Personally i didn't like it. It was a good informational book. It also told me about history. It was pretty good.

It is a most welcome change to learn about the experiences of Native Americans during WWII because of the lack of attention that they receive in comparison to the military leadership, strategy, and general battles. This is text that students and teachers alike may use as a reputable resource.

This is great for establishing information about the Native American who used their language as code during a unit on WWII. A librarian may feature this work in coordination with a speaker who could be either a WWII veteran or a family member of a Code Talker.

A fast-paced examination of a haunting and the ghost behind it through the eyes of a logical, methodical young man who will not accept anything at face value.

Carefully crafted example of how a character can address larger issues (the complexity of parents' divorce and remarriage, grief for the death of a younger sister, fear for the health of another sibling) through a tight, logically planned examination of a smaller issue: uncovering the history behind a haunting.

I have never read a book like this one. I am in love with ancient times, and this one was amazing. Not only was the setting of the book rare, but the story, culture, and characters of the book were perfectly portrayed and just fascinating. It's a thrilling as well as educational read.

Chris Bloch's "Well of Sacrifice" is a fictional anthropological tour of Maya life set during the tenth century just as the Maya civilization has peaked and the mighty Mesoamerican civilzation starts to crumble. This wonderful book, targeted at 6th grade and up, is strong in historical and cultural content and makes a terrific complement to an educational program, or in preparation for travel to the Yucatan or anywhere in Central America where the Maya had significant presence. Imbued with cultural context, Bloch's narrative makes the educational content fully engaging.

While Maya nobility and royalty play a key role in the story, the focus of Bloch's book is on the common people, specifically one young girl named Eveningstar Macaw, and how, through the will of her personality, changes this one Maya city. The Story is not action-filled until the last 40 pages or so, but it moves quickly and Evengstar is well-developed.

She's very respectful and religious, but not blindly so. She's free-thinking and logical, while also proscribing to her deep religious foundational beliefs (sacrifices and all).

Through Eveningstar, author Bloch takes the reader on a tour of Mayan society, and this what makes the book truly standout. We read about the Maya culture, religion, as well as their calendaring system. As Eveningstar finds her way through the difficulties of Mayan life, the reader learns about the society's professions, food, hobbies, trade, death rituals, medicinal and construction capabilities, and military. Bloch even builds a scene at a ball court, found at many Maya sites throughout Mesoamerica. The story concludes with a view into some of the climatological, military, religious and societal reasons as to why the Classic Maya age came to an end.

Bloch takes the archaeological-based realities of Maya life, and communicates it through a strong and simple narrative.

I enjoyed this book as an adult. It puts flesh on the bone of a people I know relatively little about. I'll ask my 11 and14 year olds to read it before we travel to the Yucatan and visit Chchen Itza and Tulum.½

13 year old Jon and his 11 year old sister, Tania, are on a television shoot with their mom and stepfather. The TV series is filming haunted sites. On this shoot, only Tania is the one that sees the ghost and the only one she confides in is Jon. They do their own research to figure out who the ghost is and see if there is anything they can do to help.

Thirteen-year-old Jon and his eleven-year-old sister, Tania, are typical kids, except for the fact that Tania can communicate with ghosts. Their mom and stepdad are producers of a ghost-hunter reality television show, but they have no idea that Tania possesses this ability, and Tania wants to keep it that way. While filming at an old hotel in Colorado, Jon and Tania find themselves trapped in a ghostly love story that happened more than a century ago. Local legend has it that a ghost bride still wanders the hotel, waiting for her lost husband. Can this fearless brother-sister duo reunite a newlywed couple, and put these ghosts to rest at last?

A nice ghost story, with some interesting twists. I particularly liked the narrator, who is very like a number of teenage boys I've known, intelligent, sweet, caring, protective and very embarrassed if anyone finds out about those characteristics. I also appreciated the lack of artificial sibling conflict - given the life situation of the characters, one would expect them to treat each other gently. The characters are portrayed as young and inexperienced, but not stupid. They catch on to the clues nearly as quickly as the reader does. Overall, worth owning.